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noun
- the act of digging
- the site of an archeological exploration
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow
- a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- (music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.
- (cricket) An innings.
- A thrust; a poke.
- (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
verb
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- remove the inner part or the core of
- get the meaning of something
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- thrust down or into
- work hard
- create by digging
- poke or thrust abruptly
- (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- To thrust; to poke.
- (figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
noun
- the act of digging
- a hole in the ground made by excavating
- (countable) Something uncovered by archaeological excavation.
- the site of an archeological exploration
- the act of extracting ores or coal etc. from the earth
- (countable) A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.
- (countable) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
- (figurative) The act of discovering and exposing or developing (a quality).
- Especially, the trade of digging engineered holes for building foundations, roadbed preparations, and similar purposes.
- (countable) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
- (countable) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
- (uncountable) Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.
- (uncountable) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
prefix
prefix
noun
- A grave.
- (narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
- Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
- A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
- An area or land used for building on or planting on.
- A plan; a purpose.
- Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
- (fandom slang, euphemistic) Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character; assets.
- A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.
- a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object
- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
verb
- (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
- (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
- (transitive, intransitive) To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
- devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)
- plan secretly, usually something illegal
- make a plot of
- make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed
noun
- (strictly) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
- a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
- (historical) A count, prefect, or person holding office.
- (loosely) Any place of interment.
- (by extension, uncountable) Deceased people; the dead.
- (uncountable, by extension) Death, destruction.
- (very loosely) Any place containing one or more corpses.
- A grave accent, the diacritic mark `.
- death of a person
- a mark (‘) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
adj
- Low in pitch, tone etc.
- Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
- Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
- causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
verb
noun
- A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
- (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs
- (obsolete except in scientific use and in some dialects) A castrated boar.
- (saltworks) A wicker case in which salt is put to drain.
- (mining) A heap of rubbish, attle, or other such refuse.
- A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants.
- (chiefly British) A hill.
- (British) A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.
- the quantity that a barrow will hold
- a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels
noun
- A tract of land in which the dead are buried.
- (attributively) A period very early in the morning in which there is very little activity.
- (sports) A team where players are sent when they are not useful, or a team where players become useless if sent there.
- (collectible card games) The discard pile, in some trading card games.
- (figuratively, by extension) A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.
- (US, slang) Synonym of suicide (“beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain”).
- a tract of land used for burials
noun
- a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
- (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
- a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- any long ditch cut in the ground
- A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
- (informal) A trench coat.
- (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
verb
- (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- dig a trench or trenches
- fortify by surrounding with trenches
- impinge or infringe upon
- cut a trench in, as for drainage
- set, plant, or bury in a trench
- cut or carve deeply into
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
- (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
- (military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
- To cut furrows or ditches in.
verb
verb
adj
noun
verb
- find by digging in the ground
- be shown or be found to be
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining
- appear or become visible; make a showing
- (transitive) To reposition by rotating, flipping, etc., upwards.
- (intransitive, copulative) To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly.
- (intransitive, slang) To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.
- (transitive, nautical) To belay or make fast (a line on a cleat or pin).
- (transitive) To cause to appear; to find by searching, etc.
- (transitive) To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.
noun
noun
- a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
- A small building, or a room within one, for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
- (loosely) A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.
- One who keeps secrets.
- Death (literary)
verb
noun
verb
- place in a grave or tomb
- embed deeply
- dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- cover from sight
- place in the earth and cover with soil
- (figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
- (figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
- To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; to drown out.
- (often figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
- To place in the ground.
- (professional wrestling slang) To ruin the image or character of another wrestler; usually by embarrassing or defeating them in dominating fashion.
- (figurative, slang) To kill or murder.
- (by extension) To overwhelm.
- (figurative, humorous) To outlive.
- (sports) To score (a goal).
noun
noun
- (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
- (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
- (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- (slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.
- (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) A vagina.
- (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
- (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
- (Canada, US, historical) A mountain valley.
- (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
- a depression hollowed out of solid matter
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
- an unoccupied space
- an opening deliberately made in or through something
- a fault
- an opening into or through something
- informal terms for the mouth
adj
verb
verb
- excavate the earth beneath
- deplete
- (transitive) To gradually drain (someone's energy or vitality).
- (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
- (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
- (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- (transitive) To drain, suck or absorb sap from (a tree, etc.).
- (transitive, figurative) To exhaust the vitality of.
noun
- a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant
- a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people
- a person who lacks good judgment
- (military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- (figurative) Vitality.
- (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
- Any juice.
- (slang, countable) A naive person; a simpleton.
noun
verb
- crash or crash-land
- forsake
- cut a trench in, as for drainage
- make an emergency landing on water
- throw away
- sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
- (intransitive) To dig ditches.
- (ambitransitive) To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
- (transitive) To dig ditches around.
- (transitive) To discard or abandon.
- (ambitransitive, aviation) To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
- Alternative form of deech.
- (transitive) To throw into a ditch.
verb
noun
- A sexually loose woman
- a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
- (when not otherwise specified) An agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds by hand.
- (Orkney, Shetland) The horned or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias.
- Any of several implements or machines usually called by their more specific names, for example, backhoe.
- (slang, derogatory) Alternative spelling of ho (“whore, prostitute”).
- A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.
noun
- The actual excavation, examination, analysis, and interpretation.
- The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains.
- The academic subject; in the USA: one of the four sub-disciplines of anthropology.
- The actual remains together with their location in the stratigraphy.
- the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures
noun
- (informal) A graveyard.
- (dominoes) In the game of dominoes, the pile of upside-down pieces that have yet to be used.
- (aviation, automotive, slang) A dumpsite for obsolete or unusable aircraft etc; a junkyard.
- (firefighting) An area scraped down to the mineral soil, so that smouldering material can be placed there without starting another fire.
noun
- the act of digging
- the site of an archeological exploration
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow
- a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- (music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.
- (cricket) An innings.
- A thrust; a poke.
- (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
verb
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- remove the inner part or the core of
- get the meaning of something
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- thrust down or into
- work hard
- create by digging
- poke or thrust abruptly
- (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- To thrust; to poke.
- (figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
noun
- the act of digging
- a hole in the ground made by excavating
- (countable) Something uncovered by archaeological excavation.
- the site of an archeological exploration
- the act of extracting ores or coal etc. from the earth
- (countable) A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.
- (countable) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
- (figurative) The act of discovering and exposing or developing (a quality).
- Especially, the trade of digging engineered holes for building foundations, roadbed preparations, and similar purposes.
- (countable) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
- (countable) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
- (uncountable) Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.
- (uncountable) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
noun
- A grave.
- (narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
- Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
- A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
- An area or land used for building on or planting on.
- A plan; a purpose.
- Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
- (fandom slang, euphemistic) Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character; assets.
- A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.
- a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object
- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
verb
- (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
- (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
- (transitive, intransitive) To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
- devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)
- plan secretly, usually something illegal
- make a plot of
- make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed
noun
- (strictly) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
- a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
- (historical) A count, prefect, or person holding office.
- (loosely) Any place of interment.
- (by extension, uncountable) Deceased people; the dead.
- (uncountable, by extension) Death, destruction.
- (very loosely) Any place containing one or more corpses.
- A grave accent, the diacritic mark `.
- death of a person
- a mark (‘) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
adj
- Low in pitch, tone etc.
- Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
- Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
- causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
verb
noun
- A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
- (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs
- (obsolete except in scientific use and in some dialects) A castrated boar.
- (saltworks) A wicker case in which salt is put to drain.
- (mining) A heap of rubbish, attle, or other such refuse.
- A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants.
- (chiefly British) A hill.
- (British) A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.
- the quantity that a barrow will hold
- a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels
noun
- A tract of land in which the dead are buried.
- (attributively) A period very early in the morning in which there is very little activity.
- (sports) A team where players are sent when they are not useful, or a team where players become useless if sent there.
- (collectible card games) The discard pile, in some trading card games.
- (figuratively, by extension) A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.
- (US, slang) Synonym of suicide (“beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain”).
- a tract of land used for burials
noun
- a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
- (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
- a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- any long ditch cut in the ground
- A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
- (informal) A trench coat.
- (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
verb
- (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- dig a trench or trenches
- fortify by surrounding with trenches
- impinge or infringe upon
- cut a trench in, as for drainage
- set, plant, or bury in a trench
- cut or carve deeply into
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
- (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
- (military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
- To cut furrows or ditches in.
noun
- a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
- A small building, or a room within one, for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
- (loosely) A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.
- One who keeps secrets.
- Death (literary)
verb
noun
noun
- (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
- (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
- (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- (slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.
- (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) A vagina.
- (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
- (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
- (Canada, US, historical) A mountain valley.
- (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
- a depression hollowed out of solid matter
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
- an unoccupied space
- an opening deliberately made in or through something
- a fault
- an opening into or through something
- informal terms for the mouth
adj
verb
noun
verb
- crash or crash-land
- forsake
- cut a trench in, as for drainage
- make an emergency landing on water
- throw away
- sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
- (intransitive) To dig ditches.
- (ambitransitive) To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
- (transitive) To dig ditches around.
- (transitive) To discard or abandon.
- (ambitransitive, aviation) To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
- Alternative form of deech.
- (transitive) To throw into a ditch.
noun
- The actual excavation, examination, analysis, and interpretation.
- The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains.
- The academic subject; in the USA: one of the four sub-disciplines of anthropology.
- The actual remains together with their location in the stratigraphy.
- the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures
noun
- (informal) A graveyard.
- (dominoes) In the game of dominoes, the pile of upside-down pieces that have yet to be used.
- (aviation, automotive, slang) A dumpsite for obsolete or unusable aircraft etc; a junkyard.
- (firefighting) An area scraped down to the mineral soil, so that smouldering material can be placed there without starting another fire.
verb
verb
adj
noun
verb
- find by digging in the ground
- be shown or be found to be
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining
- appear or become visible; make a showing
- (transitive) To reposition by rotating, flipping, etc., upwards.
- (intransitive, copulative) To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly.
- (intransitive, slang) To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.
- (transitive, nautical) To belay or make fast (a line on a cleat or pin).
- (transitive) To cause to appear; to find by searching, etc.
- (transitive) To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.
noun
verb
- place in a grave or tomb
- embed deeply
- dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- cover from sight
- place in the earth and cover with soil
- (figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
- (figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
- To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; to drown out.
- (often figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
- To place in the ground.
- (professional wrestling slang) To ruin the image or character of another wrestler; usually by embarrassing or defeating them in dominating fashion.
- (figurative, slang) To kill or murder.
- (by extension) To overwhelm.
- (figurative, humorous) To outlive.
- (sports) To score (a goal).
noun
noun
- a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
- (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
- a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- any long ditch cut in the ground
- A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
- (informal) A trench coat.
- (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
verb
- (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- dig a trench or trenches
- fortify by surrounding with trenches
- impinge or infringe upon
- cut a trench in, as for drainage
- set, plant, or bury in a trench
- cut or carve deeply into
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
- (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
- (military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
- To cut furrows or ditches in.
verb
- excavate the earth beneath
- deplete
- (transitive) To gradually drain (someone's energy or vitality).
- (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
- (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
- (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- (transitive) To drain, suck or absorb sap from (a tree, etc.).
- (transitive, figurative) To exhaust the vitality of.
noun
- a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant
- a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people
- a person who lacks good judgment
- (military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- (figurative) Vitality.
- (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
- Any juice.
- (slang, countable) A naive person; a simpleton.
verb
noun
- A sexually loose woman
- a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
- (when not otherwise specified) An agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds by hand.
- (Orkney, Shetland) The horned or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias.
- Any of several implements or machines usually called by their more specific names, for example, backhoe.
- (slang, derogatory) Alternative spelling of ho (“whore, prostitute”).
- A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.